Whoever Assange is, a lone provocateur, “a special-services project”, an agent of the Republicans in their fight against Obama, or simply a titan bringing people light, he has in any case done the world an invaluable service.
The point isn’t even what’s written in the “leaks” (WikiLeaks), but how people and organizations react to them. A kind of political “Wassermann reaction” (the old blood test for syphilis): who is ready to dump what at the first creak of the floorboards in the corridor.
On the subject: guardian.co.uk: “WikiLeaks row: why Amazon’s desertion has ominous implications for democracy”